Re: request: permission to participate in app-backplane incubator group

aloha, charles!

thank you very much for your note and your and the incubator group's 
focus on the accessibility aspects of backplane applications at the 
outset of the effort...  i also appreciate the crucial cross-over 
between the on-going work on forms, and i strongly believe that it can 
only assist (and hopefully help re-invigorate) that work through my 
participation in both the incubator group and the joint task force on 
forms... 

i eagerly anticipate the opportunity to work with you and the group,
gregory.
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---------- Original Message -----------
From: Charles F Wiecha <wiecha@us.ibm.com>
  To: "Gregory J. Rosmaita" <oedipus@hicom.net>
  Cc: alfred.s.gilman@ieee.org, brewer@w3.org, steve@w3.org, 
      www-archive@w3.org
Sent: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:45:50 -0400
Subj: Re: request: permission to participate in app-backplane incubator 
group

> Hi Gregory -- assuming Steve confirms all's well with the form 
> you submitted, we'd be glad to have you join as invited expert.  
> Continuing to have a focus on accessibility issues for the 
> "backplane" will be a key theme, as will thinking about 
> relationships with on-going forms work. Thanks for your 
interest...Charlie
> 
> Charles Wiecha
> Manager, Multichannel Web Interaction
> IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
> P.O. Box 704
> Yorktown Heights, N.Y.  10598
> Phone: (914) 784-6180, T/L 863-6180, Cell: (914) 320-2614
> wiecha@us.ibm.com
> 
>          Re: request: permission to participate in app-backplane 
> incubator group
> 
>          Gregory J. Rosmaita                                     
>                                            to:
> 
>  steve                                                           
>                                                       04/30/08 
> 04:18 PM
> 
>          Cc:                                                     
>                              Charles F Wiecha, www-archive,
>  alfred.s.gilman, brewer
> 
> aloha, steve!
> 
> thanks for the quick response -- i'm glad it was easier than it
> seemed it would be when i couldn't fill out:
> 
> http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/42340/join
> 
> which is why i contacted you directly, as instucted in:
> 
> http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/42340/instructions#nonmember
> 
> i have completed the form at:
> 
> http://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/1/ieapp/
> 
> requesting participation in the app-backplane incubator group; 
> as for contacting/notifying the chair, i have carbon-copied charles
> wiecha on each of my emessages in this thread -- does that suffice?
> 
> (if not, charles, you can contact me directly, if you so desire 
> or have the need)
> 
> thank you again for your assistance,
> gregory.
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> ---------- Original Message -----------
> From: Steve Bratt <steve@w3.org>
>   To: "Gregory J. Rosmaita" <oedipus@hicom.net>
>   Cc: wiecha@us.ibm.com, www-archive@w3.org, 
> alfred.s.gilman@ieee.org,      brewer@w3.org
> Sent: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:33:47 -0400 Subj: Re: request: 
> permission to participate in app-backplane incubator group
> 
> > Dear Gregory,
> >
> > You probably know about this IE policy page ...
> > -- http://www.w3.org/2004/08/invexp.html
> >
> > As it says, you should fill-out this application ...
> > -- http://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/1/ieapp/
> >
> > Also, contact the chair so that he supports your application
> > once you have applied.
> >
> > Then the process will be underway.  Once you've done this, you
> > should hear back from us within 1 week.
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> >
> > Steve
> >
> > On 4/30/2008 2:11 PM, Gregory J. Rosmaita wrote:
> > > aloha, steve!
> > >
> > > i have been an invited expert to the W3C since 1997; i am an active
> > > participant in the Protocols & Formats WG 
(http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF);
> > > the User Agent Accessibility Guidelines WG
> (http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA);
> > > the HTML WG; the XHTML2 WG; and the Joint Forms Task Force
> (HTML/Forms
> > > WG)
> > >
> > > outside of the w3c, i am vice-chair, webmaster and listmaster for 
the
> > > Open Accessibility (A11y) Workgroup (http://a11y.org) formerly of 
the
> > > Free Standards Group, now under the Linux Foundation umbrella
> (although
> > > we do NOT deal exclusively with linux -- we strive to be as platform
> > > agnostic as possible, but we do have a very active group working to
> > > increase the accessibility of the windows operating system through
> the
> > > development and deployment of IAccessible2 - http://a11y.org/ia2>)
> > >
> > > since i don't have the requisite clearance to fill out:
> > > http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/42340/join
> > >
> > > i'm emailing you as per the instructions contained in:
> > >
> > > http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/42340/instructions#nonmember
> > >
> > > to request your permission to participate in the app-backplane
> incubator
> > > group -- please let me know if you need more information; i already
> have
> > > member-confidential access to w3c space by virtue of my membership 
in
> PF
> > >
> > > please note that for informational purposes, i have carbon-copied Al
> > > Gilman, chair of Protocols & Formats and Judy Brewer, director of 
the
> > > WAI
> > >
> > > thank you,
> > > gregory
> > > --------------------------------------------------------------
> > > You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of
> > > focus.                                           -- Mark Twain
> > > --------------------------------------------------------------
> > > Gregory J. Rosmaita: oedipus@hicom.net
> > >    Camera Obscura: http://www.hicom.net/~oedipus/
> > >           Oedipus' Online Complex: http://my.opera.com/oedipus
> > > --------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > --
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> > Chief Executive Officer
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> > MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
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> +1.617.253.7697
> ------- End of Original Message -------
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